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- From: jm@maths.tcd.IE (Justin Mason)
- Subject: gs 2.5.2 and HP DeskJet 500
- Message-ID: <9211151437.aa23522@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 14:37:29 GMT
- Approved: bug-ghostscript@prep.ai.mit.edu
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- We've been using GhostScript 2.5.2 happily here since it was released,
- with X11R5, GhostView 1.4, and GhostScript fonts 2.5.2. Having recently
- acquired a H-P DeskJet 500 printer, it would be worthwhile using
- GS to print PostScr*pt to it. However, I've been having some trouble.
-
- Originally, gsdj prepended gslp.ps, which seemed to cause it to print PS
- as normal text. I've disabled this and added switches for 300 DPI resolution
- and an output device. The -sOutputDevice switch doesn't seem to work;
- output goes to files of the pattern /tmp/gs_a*.
-
- The trouble we've been having follows this pattern: strange characters
- at the leftmost character of the line; smeared-looking Courier text;
- occasional vertical blocks and similar artifacts.
-
- The line to the printer seems to be 8-bit clean; I can print characters
- defined as 8-bit in the printer manual.
-
- In unix-gcc.mak, I use:
-
- DEVICE_DEVS=x11.dev djet500.dev (I've tried using deskjet.dev
- instead of djet500.dev, swapping x11.dev and djet500.dev, all to no avail)
-
- And here's our version of gsdj:
-
- #!/bin/sh
- # originally, this was:
- # gs -q -sDEVICE=djet500 -r300 -dNOPAUSE -- gslp.ps $*
- gs -sDEVICE=djet500 -r300 -sOutputDevice="./for-deskjet" -dNOPAUSE -- $*
-
- Can anyone help?
- --
- Justin Mason -- <jm@maths.tcd.ie> -or- <jm@iona.ie> for MIME mail
-
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